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...live TV, I learned that cell-phone companies are glad to provide it. I test-drove the Flo TV service--one of several cell-TV options--on an AT&T LG phone, complete with a tiny retractable antenna that made it look like something you'd see in Couch Potato Barbie's living room. I set the tiny screen on a kitchen shelf and watched MTV as I peeled carrots. I tuned it to Morning Joe and balanced it inside my medicine cabinet, discovering an exciting new way to cut myself while shaving. So long as I had a signal...
...HDTVs are getting thinner and bigger. While that's not exactly news, it was hard not to be impressed by the gleaming, wafer-thin lineups from Sony, Samsung, Sharp and LG, which have managed to shrink their screens down to half an inch in depth while offering screen sizes in the 100-in.-plus range. OLED TVs, using an amazing new display technology that draws little power but offers a huge array of colors, are now hovering around 21 in., which means that competitive sizes at competitive prices with plasma and LCDs ought to be available in another year...
...globe. But in the first eight months of this year, only 85 companies listed on AIM, compared with 201 in the same period a year ago--and almost twice as many have dropped off it. "Capacity is massively down," says Tom Nicholls, a partner at the London law firm LG who specializes in matters related to AIM. So are the nomads--their number has dropped from...
...bigger issue is whether the risk-taking, hard-charging, high-living times will give way to a quieter, duller, less profitable and far more regulated era--not so much a golden age as a golden cage. The debt-fueled days are almost certainly history. Jon Lloyd, joint head of LG's real estate practice, points out that the investment-banking mentality of the past few years--ever bigger fees for ever more complex transactions--has spread to all sorts of businesses, from law to real estate. He wonders if that's all about to change. "Will we as advisers fall...
...households across the capital will have to tighten their belts and live with a lot less leverage; the banking crisis has already made it considerably harder for house buyers to get mortgages of any sort, let alone ones requiring only a tiny down payment. Jon Lloyd, joint head of LG's real estate practice, points out that the investment-banking mentality of the past few years - ever bigger fees for ever more complex transactions - has spread to all sorts of businesses, from law to real estate. He wonders whether that's all about to change. "Will we as advisers fall...